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Black Birthing & Matrilineal Healing: Centering Community Voices is a colloquium-style course hosted in partnership with UCSF REPAIR, the UCSF Medical Anthropology Program, and blackwomxnhealing that highlights the complex birthing and healing experiences of Black women and femme-identified folks. An elective course birthed from the #BlackFeministHealingArts Spring 2023 Communiversity Course, it deepens engagement with Black Feminist Healing Arts through the lens of Black birthing. To learn more, click the link above to view our public access course syllabus.

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reelaviolette botts-ward, PhD, is a homegirl, an artist, and a community curator from Philadelphia, PA. She is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow with the REPAIR Project at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) in the School of Medicine. At UCSF, ree brings radical Black feminist healing arts to healthcare and medical science spaces. She is also the founder of blackwomxnhealing, where she curates healing circles, exhibitions, courses, and publications for and by Black womxn. 

 

ree received her PhD in African Diaspora Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, her MA in African American studies from UCLA, and her BA in Sociology and Anthropology from Spelman College. She has also taught courses in the African American Studies department at the University of California, Berkeley and Merritt Community College in Oakland, California, and a course called #BlackFeministHealingArts in UCSF’s Medical Anthropology department. For more on ree’s work, visit blackwomxnhealing.com / @blackwomxnhealing / @dr.reelaviolette on instagram. 

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